Notification Time: 10/30/2012 at 4:10 [ET]
Event Time: 10/30/2012 at 1:09 [EDT]
[...]
“Salem Unit 1 was operating at 100% reactor power when a loss of 4
condenser circulators required a manual reactor trip in accordance with
station procedures. The cause of the 4 circulators being removed from
service was due to a combination of high river level and detritus from
Hurricane Sandy’s transit.
“All control rods inserted. A subsequent loss of the 2 remaining
circulators required transition of decay heat removal from condenser
steam dumps to the 11-14 MS10s (atmospheric steam dump). Decay heat
removal is from the 11/12 Aux Feed Pumps to all 4 steam generators via
the 11-14 MS10s. [...]

How crazy to run any of the nuclear plants at any power level during this huge storm.
Insane greedy nucleocrats. The plants need to be shuttered forever,
but at the least they should have powered them all down five days ago.

No wonder radiationnetwork showed highest cpm readings in the
country this AM on geiger near NY NJ CT! (The storm is spinning that
steam dump to the NW and over the Great Lakes to be wafted eastwards by
the jetstream.)
Normally that one is low 30s but this morning high 70s clicks per minute.
The best is yet to come as we will have to kick Entergy and Exelon
out of the Northeast when one of their cans gets cookin'. It only takes
less than an hour to start an unstoppable meltdown.
Would man be riding bicycles if they had no brakes? How does a sane man invent such a stupid thing as nuclear power generation?
Oh yeah, I forgot, somebody made MONEY doing this

Lets just hope they recover the circulation pumps. The steam dump
sounds like a last resort for getting ride of the heat building in the
reactors. Be nice to know what step in the oh shit list we are on when
we perform this operation.

They just released tritium into the air, and the surrounding community will be exposed to it.
They should be sued for negligence. They knew this major storm was
coming and what kinds of risks it could pose to the plant, but they
irresponsibly chose to operate at full power anyway.

What is it going to take for the worlds nuclear industries to
realize that, if it is just about the bottom line, nuclear power isn't
worth it.
If it really was about safety, then things would be done differently.
A statement from, Andre-Claude Lacoste, 70, the outgoing head of the French Autorite de Surete Nucleaire.
Japan-Style Nuclear Safety Errors Abound, Regulator Warns
Japan’s nuclear safety failures that led to last year’s disaster at
Fukushima are being repeated in other countries that operate atomic
reactors, according to France’s top regulator. http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-10-29/japan-style-nuclear-safety-errors-abound-french-regulator-says

Look at these past radiation releases from Oyster Creek:
** "In April 1998, the NRC cited the owner of the Oyster Creek
nuclear plant in New Jersey for unmonitored releases of radioactively
contaminated gas (NRC, 1998). Oyster Creek uses two
isolation condensers to remove decay heat produced by the reactor core
when the normal heat removal systems are unavailable. Oyster Creek’s
Final Safety Analysis Report stated that the isolation condensers would
be filled with clean, non-radioactive water. But for nearly 30 years,
workers had been filling the condensers with radioactively contaminated
water. As that water evaporated, it was vented directly to the
atmosphere."
** "In December 1996, the NRC cited the owner of the Oyster Creek
nuclear plant in New Jersey for the accidental release of 133,000
gallons of radioactively contaminated water into Barnegat Bay (NRC,
1996)."
** "August 2009: Workers discovered radioactively contaminated
water leaking into the ground from where a condensate transfer pipe
passed through the turbine building wall."http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/nuclear_power/nuclear-power-radioactive-releases.pdf

Now look at this:
A brick house located just west of the canal on Carroll Street had steam
rising from its foundation. A man who said he was a resident but
wouldn't provide his name said the basement had filled with water from
the canal in the night, and now the electrical wiring was steaming. He
said the fire department told him it would not come unless the structure
was physically on fire. I'll wait, and then it'll go up like a
tinderbox, he said.
From:http://www.indianexpress.com/news/sandy-split-new-york-city-in-two/1024451/0
The question is: Will the fire brigade wait till the nuke is on fire?

RT just caught Prof Busby for a quick comment here.. video and transcript..
Prof. Busby -Oyster Creek proximity to New York poses threat during flooding -(Video)
You can never make nuclear power stations perfectly safe. You can’t
make it impossible for these situations to occur and when they do occur,
they can be pretty catastrophic, Professor Christopher Busby from the
European Committee on Radiation Risks told RT. The Professor added
Oyster Creek plant was a particular risk, located just 65 miles from New
York City.
All of the power stations in the area were built against the express
wishes of the people who lived there. They were pushed through by some
kind of federal axe which overcame the opposition of the people, he
said.http://nuclear-news.net/2012/10/31/prof-busby-oyster-creek-proximity-to-new-york-poses-threat-during-flooding-video/
mentions a long shot possibility of meltdown too!

Oyster (like Fukushima Units 1-4) is the oldest BWR (40 years old)
in the US. So, what happens? The NRC grants it a 20 year extension even
though it is shut down at the moment and only the spent fuel pools are
in play.
Salem Units are PWR type (like San Onofre).
At least with the PWR Salem units, the radioactive water is under
very high pressure so it won't boil, no steam, and is suppose to travel
in a short closed loop to transfer its heat in exchangers. Major leaks
would occur in the heat exchangers when the piping cracks or wears thin
like with San Onofre.
After a PWR shuts down if they are blowing off excess steam from a
heat exchanger loop that drives the turbines, then there should be very
little radioactive releases while the reactor (loop) is cooling down.
With no steam turbine being driven, you still use the steam loop to cool
the pressurized water reactor loop via the heat exchangers. Unless
there is something they are not telling us.
Of course, some noble gases and tritium get released constantly
(tritium is almost impossible to contained) so being on the east coast
you would hope it blows or flows out to sea, normally. With flooding it
might just hang around.
Would it be to much to ask to at least shut down all the (25?) BWRs in the US, now?

Salem 1 & 2 are PWR's. Odds are, the steam is from the turbine
circuit of the condenser, not the reactor circuit. The purpose would
be to remove pressure from the condenser to allow emergency water
injection at atmospheric pressure, since the intakes to the turbine feed
pumps got clogged from storm debris (plant and mud from water being
stirred up). Dumping water from the reactor circuit voluntarily during a
shutdown in a PWR wouldn't make sense.

[...] Heightened coverage will continue at Oyster Creek, a
plant in Lacey Township, N.J., still in an “Alert” due to high water
levels in its water intake structure. [...]
At Oyster Creek, the Alert – the second lowest of four levels of
emergency classification used by the NRC – remains in effect as plant
operators wait for the water intake levels to drop to pre-designated
thresholds. The water level rose due to a combination of a rising tide,
wind direction and storm surge. Oyster Creek was shut down for a
refueling and maintenance outage prior to the storm and the reactor
remains out of service. Water levels are beginning to subside to more
normal levels, but the plant remains in an Alert status until there is
enough confidence levels will remain at more normal levels. Offsite
power at the plant is in the process of being restored. [...]

Aside from widespread power outages and flooding that is
reaching doorsteps, residents stranded in Seaside Heights, N.J., are
worried about another danger: ruptured gas lines.
Locals told “Nightline” anchor Terry Moran that they had been told
there is a concern that the slightest spark could set the town ablaze.
Moran, who canoed to the beach because the storm surge from Sandy was
so high, said he could smell gas and oil coming from the standing flood
waters [...]

Seaside heights is 10 miles north of the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant.

NBC Philadelphia is reporting similar problems in Ship Bottom, 11 miles to the south of Oyster Creek:

Flyover footage shows new area nearby giant sinkhole saturated with water (VIDEO)

By Scott DiSavinoOct 31 (Reuters) - U.S. power company Exelon Corp
said Wednesday it ended an alert at the Oyster Creek nuclear
power plant in New Jersey after high water from Hurricane Sandy
returned to normal levels.
Oyster Creek, the nation's oldest operating reactor,
declared the rare "alert" Monday night after water levels at the
plant rose more than 6.5 feet (2 meters) above normal,
potentially affecting the "water intake structure" that pumps
cooling water through the plant.The pumps were not essential to keep the reactor cool since
the plant has been shut for planned refueling since Oct. 22.
Exelon, however, was concerned that if the water rose more
than 7 feet it could submerge the service water pump motor used
to cool the water in the spent fuel pool, potentially forcing
the company to use emergency water supplies from the in-house
fire suppression system to keep the used uranium fuel rods in
the pool from overheating, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) said Monday night.
Exelon said there was no danger to public health or safety.
The plant has numerous means of keeping the water in the spent
fuel pool cool, including the use of a portable pump moved to
the water intake structure and the fire suppression system.Exelon said in a statement on Wednesday the winds and heavy
rains generated tides 6.8 feet above mean sea level at the
43-year-old plant's water intake. But they were never high
enough to top the intake canal banks or affect operation of the
plant's equipment.After water levels returned to normal and offsite power was
restored, Exelon said the plant exited the alert early Wednesday
morning.
The Oyster Creek alert was only the third time this year
that the second-lowest of the NRC's four emergency action levels
was triggered.The incident at the
relatively small 636-megawatt Oyster Creek plant, which is about 60
miles (95 km) east of Philadelphia on the New Jersey Coast, came as
Sandy made landfall as the largest Atlantic storm ever, bringing up to
90 mile per hour winds and 13-foot storm surges in the biggest test of
the industry's emergency preparedness since the Fukushima disaster in Japan a year and a half ago.
INDUSTRY PASSES TESTDespite the alert -- which is a serious but not catastrophic
event that signals a "potential substantial degradation in the
level of safety" -- the U.S. nuclear industry is broadly seen as
having passed the test. About a dozen alerts have been issued
in the past four years, according to NRC press releases.
The NRC said Wednesday morning it was beginning to return to
normal inspection coverage for the nuclear power plants in the
U.S. Northeast.
In addition to the event at Oyster Creek, three reactors
were shut during the storm. They were Entergy Corp's
Indian Point 3 in New York, Public Service Enterprise Group
Inc's Salem 1 in New Jersey and Constellation Energy
Nuclear Group's Nine Mile Point 1 in New York. The NRC said all
safety systems responded as designed at the plants that shut.
The NRC also said three other plants reduced power due to
the storm. They were Dominion Resources Inc's Millstone 3
in Connecticut, Entergy's Vermont Yankee in Vermont and Exelon's
Limerick in Pennsylvania. By early Wednesday, the reactors had
begun to return to full service.

Obama Signs New Executive Order Expanding Homeland Security Mission In The U.S.

On Oct. 26, President Obama signed a new Executive Order which expands the role and scope of Homeland Security in states
and areas across the country. This order, which establishes a new
Security Partnership Council, will have far reaching effects in the
overall mission of Homeland Security, and for state and local areas that interact with the Federal agency.

Economically, the Establishing the White House Homeland Security Partnership Council Executive Order
will increase funding and resources to state and local governments to
fulfill Homeland Security programs and doctrines, as well as increase
Federal oversight in the implementation of directives tied to the
agencies mission.

The purpose of this order is to maximize the Federal Government’s
ability to develop local partnerships in the United States to support
homeland security priorities. Partnerships are collaborative working
relationships in which the goals, structure, and roles and
responsibilities of the relationships are mutually determined.

There is established a White House Homeland Security Partnership Council (Council) to foster local partnerships — between the Federal Government
and the private sector, nongovernmental organizations, foundations,
community-based organizations, and State, local, tribal, and territorial
government and law enforcement — to address homeland security challenges.

Sec. 3. Mission and Function of the Council and Steering Committee

(ii) promote homeland security
priorities and opportunities for collaboration between Federal
Government field offices and State, local, tribal, and territorial
stakeholders;

(iii) advise and confer with State,
local, tribal, and territorial stakeholders and agencies interested in
expanding or building local homeland security partnerships; – Whitehouse.gov

Executive Order — Establishing the White House Homeland Security Partnership Council

By the authority vested in me as
President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, and in order to advance the Federal Government’s use of local
partnerships to address homeland security challenges, it is hereby
ordered as follows:

Section1. Policy.
The purpose of this order is to maximize the Federal Government’s
ability to develop local partnerships in the United States to support
homeland security priorities. Partnerships are collaborative working
relationships in which the goals, structure, and roles and
responsibilities of the relationships are mutually determined.
Collaboration enables the Federal Government and its partners to use
resources more efficiently, build on one another’s expertise, drive
innovation, engage in collective action, broaden investments to achieve
shared goals, and improve performance. Partnerships enhance our ability
to address homeland security priorities, from responding to natural disasters to preventing terrorism, by utilizing diverse perspectives, skills, tools, and resources.

The National Security
Strategy emphasizes the importance of partnerships, underscoring that
to keep our Nation safe “we must tap the ingenuity outside government
through strategic partnerships with the private sector, nongovernmental
organizations, foundations, and community-based organizations. Such
partnerships are critical to U.S. success at home and abroad, and we
will support them through enhanced opportunities for engagement,
coordination, transparency, and information sharing.” This approach
recognizes that, given the complexities and range of challenges, we must
institutionalize an all-of-Nation effort to address the evolving
threats to the United States.

(a) White House Homeland Security Partnership Council.
There is established a White House Homeland Security Partnership
Council (Council) to foster local partnerships — between the Federal
Government and the private sector, nongovernmental organizations,
foundations, community-based organizations, and State, local, tribal,
and territorial government and law enforcement
— to address homeland security challenges. The Council shall be chaired
by the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism (Chair), or a designee from the National Security Staff.

(b) Council Membership.

(i) Pursuant to the nomination process
established in subsection (b)(ii) of this section, the Council shall be
composed of Federal officials who are from field offices of the
executive departments, agencies, and bureaus (agencies) that are members
of the Steering Committee established in subsection (c) of this
section, and who have demonstrated an ability to develop, sustain, and
institutionalize local partnerships to address policy priorities.

(ii) The nomination process and
selection criteria for members of the Council shall be established by
the Steering Committee. Based on those criteria, agency heads may select
and present to the Steering Committee their nominee or nominees to
represent them on the Council. The Steering Committee shall consider all
of the nominees and decide by consensus which of the nominees shall
participate on the Council. Each member agency on the Steering
Committee, with the exception of the Office of the Director of National
Intelligence, may have at least one representative on the Council.

(c) Steering Committee.
There is also established a Steering Committee, chaired by the Chair of
the Council, to provide guidance to the Council and perform other
functions as set forth in this order. The Steering Committee shall
include a representative at the Deputy agency head level, or that
representative’s designee, from the following agencies:

At the invitation of the Chair,
representatives of agencies not listed in subsection (c) of this section
or other executive branch entities may attend and participate in
Steering Committee meetings as appropriate.

(d) Administration.
The Chair or a designee shall convene meetings of the Council and
Steering Committee, determine their agendas, and coordinate their work.
The Council may establish subgroups consisting exclusively of Council
members or their designees, as appropriate.

Sec. 3. Mission and Function of the Council and Steering Committee. (a) The Council shall, consistent with guidance from the Steering Committee:

(i) advise the Chair and Steering
Committee members on priorities, challenges, and opportunities for local
partnerships to support homeland security priorities, as well as
regularly report to the Steering Committee on the Council’s efforts;

(ii) promote homeland security
priorities and opportunities for collaboration between Federal
Government field offices and State, local, tribal, and territorial
stakeholders;

(iii) advise and confer with State,
local, tribal, and territorial stakeholders and agencies interested in
expanding or building local homeland security partnerships;

(iv) raise awareness of local partnership best practices that can support homeland security priorities;

(v) as appropriate, conduct outreach
to representatives of the private sector, nongovernmental organizations,
foundations, community-based organizations, and State, local, tribal,
and territorial government and law enforcement
entities with relevant expertise for local homeland security
partnerships, and collaborate with other Federal Government bodies; and

(vi) convene an annual meeting to exchange key findings, progress, and best practices.

(b) The Steering Committee shall:

(i) determine the scope of issue areas
the Council will address and its operating protocols, in consultation
with the Office of Management and Budget;

(ii) establish the nomination process
and selection criteria for members of the Council as set forth in
section 2(b)(ii) of this order;

(iii) provide guidance to the Council on the activities set forth in subsection (a) of this section; and

(iv) within 1 year of the selection of
the Council members, and annually thereafter, provide a report on the
work of the Council to the President through the Chair.

Sec. 4. General Provisions.
(a) The heads of agencies participating in the Steering Committee shall
assist and provide information to the Council, consistent with
applicable law, as may be necessary to implement this order. Each agency
shall bear its own expense for participating in the Council.

(b) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department, agency, or the head thereof;

(ii) the functions of the Director of
the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary,
administrative, or legislative proposals; or

(iii) the functions of the Overseas Security Advisory Council.

(c) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and appropriate protections for privacy and civil liberties, and subject to the availability of appropriations.

(d) This order is not intended to, and
does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States,
its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or
agents, or any other person.

I intend for this to be my final post on the subject of the NEXRAD
RADAR frequency pulse phenomenon, and the weather which results from its
appearance.[originally slang termed 'HAARP rings' by myself in 2011..
subsequently referred to as 'Circle sweeps' and 'NEXRAD RADAR pulses'...
as this is the proper technical terminology to use when referencing
these events.]To see all the past documented appearances of these events, and the
followup weather which appeared at each location .. link here:http://sincedutch.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/1282012-skeptical-about-what-i-call-haarp-rings/

Final? Yes.Aside from the coming release of the documentary on this topic, I do not intend to track these events, or further document them.The above link represents almost 2 years of documentations regarding
the NEXRAD RADAR pulses, and followups on the storms which intersect
those pulses (within the allotted times stated).=========

Violent crime is on the rise in the United
States, and many Americans are totally fed up. According to the U.S.
Bureau of Justice Statistics, the number of household burglaries rose by 14 percent last year, and the overall rate of violent crime in the United States increased by 18 percent during 2011.

Based on what we have seen so far this year, we will almost certainly
see another huge increase once the statistics for 2012 are released.
All over the country criminals are becoming bolder. Meanwhile, police
budgets are being slashed from coast to coast. Things have gotten so
bad in some communities that police are openly admitting that crime is
completely and totally out of control. For example, police in Detroit
recently handed out flyers with this message: “Enter Detroit at your own risk“.
Sadly, you can’t even escape the crime and the violence by staying in
your own home these days. Home invasions are becoming increasingly
common, and many police departments seem powerless to stop them. If
many of the poorer areas of America today, if you are a victim of a home
invasion you will be really lucky to get a police officer to show up a couple of hours later to
fill out a report. A lot of frustrated home owners have had enough and
have started to arm themselves to the teeth. Some have even begun to
form armed posses to patrol their own neighborhoods. We are watching
America change right in front of our eyes, and it is frightening to
think about what is coming next.The streets of some U.S. cities have been transformed into war zones
at this point. Juts check out this excerpt from a recent story about
the horrific violence that is taking place in Camden, New Jersey…

At the vigil last week, residents prayed that Camden
would simply find peace and that the masked gunman who killed Jewel
Manire and Khalil Gibson would be caught.As it grew darker, Michael Benjamin stood toward the back of the crowd, his son huddled even closer now, and shook his head.“I’ve known at least 45 kids who’ve been killed in my lifetime,”
he said, the boy holding his finger. “I stopped counting in 2004,
though.”

You may think that talk of “armed posses” patrolling local
communities is a little “out there”, but the truth is that it is already
happening.For example, a groups of residents in Josephine County, Oregon have formed “the CAC Patrol“. They have mounted flashing lights on to their vehicles and they openly carry guns as they patrol their neighborhoods…

There’s no room in the county jail for burglars and
thieves. And the sheriff’s department in a vast, rural corner of
southwest Oregon has been reduced by budget cuts to three deputies on
patrol eight hours a day, five days a week.But people in this traditionally self-reliant section of timber
country aren’t about to raise taxes to put more officers on the road.
Instead, some folks in Josephine County, larger than the state of Rhode
Island, are taking matters into their own hands — mounting flashing
lights on their trucks and strapping pistols to their hips to guard
communities themselves. Others have put together a virtual neighborhood
watch, using Facebook to share tips and information.“I believe in standing up for myself rather than waiting for the
government to do something for me,” said Sam Nichols, a retired marina
manager.Nichols has organized a posse of about a dozen fed-up residents
who have started patrolling the small community of O’Brien, which has
about 750 residents.

As home invasions continue to get worse all over the country, I expect that we will see a lot more of this type of thing.In the old days, we were taught that if burglars enter your home that you should let them take whatever they want and leave.But these days you simply cannot trust that they will leave you and
your family alone. Many home invaders actually hope to find someone
inside that they can rape, and many victims end up dead.That is exactly what happened to one man in Gary, Indiana the other day…

Last Friday, Jerry Hood, 48, of Gary, Ind., left work
and decided to go home during lunchtime. Gary police said Hood, who was
with a co-worker, noticed activity in his house and called police for
help, but did not wait for police to arrive. Instead he went in and lost
his life when he disrupted a home invasion, police say. Hood died from
multiple gunshot wounds.

A shootout during a possible home invasion left the
27-year-old owner dead and a suspected intruder wounded, the Oakland
County Sheriff’s Office said.Deputies were called about 3:25 a.m. to an address in the 800
block of Inglewood Avenue near Cesar Chavez, where a home invasion was
reported.

A 12-year-old girl down
in Oklahoma may have been added to the growing list of dead victims if
she had not been willing to shoot first and ask questions later.The story that she recently told police is absolutely chilling…

“He opened the screen door and started pounded on the
door. So I didn’t answer it. And I called my mom. She said to go get
the gun and hide in the closet.”Kendra St. Clair says she stayed in the closet until she thought the coast was clear. So she went to check the back door.And he was standing there trying to open it. So I got really scared and I called 911.”She went back to the closet. That’s when she heard the man in the house.“When I was back there on the phone with 911, I heard the
bathroom light turn on that was leading to the closet. And when I saw
the door handle turn, I shot him. I guess it went through the door, went
through him, and went through the wall.”

What do you think would have happened to that 12-year-old girl if she had not had a gun?You normally would not think of Oklahoma as a high crime state, but
the truth is that home invasions are on the rise all over the nation.Here is another home invasion story from Oklahoma. A young mother
was home alone with her three-month-old son when two men started
breaking into her home. Fortunately, she had a gun and was willing to use it…

An Oklahoma woman was recently home with her 3 month
old son when two men tried to break in. Armed with a shot gun and a
pistol she called 9-1-1.Operator: “Are your doors locked?”Caller: “Yes, I’ve got two guns in my hand. Is it ok to shoot him if he comes in this door?”Operator: “I can’t tell you what you can do but you do what you have to do to protect your baby.”The mother did shoot killing one of the intruders. Oklahoma police called the shooting justified.

Would you do the same thing to protect your children?Sadly, criminals are becoming more desperate than ever and many of
them do not even care if there is anyone inside the homes that they are
invading.For much more on this, please see my previous article entitled “11 Shocking Home Invasion Horror Stories That Are Almost Too Creepy To Believe“.Are you starting to see why I believe that more homeowners are going to start taking matters into their own hands?Some areas of the country that once had very little crime are now seeing crime absolutely skyrocket.A while back, I shared what one man down in Georgia says is going on in his neck of the woods…

I worked until around 9:30-10 Friday night, and
Saturday morning my tools and equipment were gone. Footprints,
fingerprints, a neighbor saw the guys and pickup truck – but the
sheriff’s department can’t afford the resources to track them down (by
comparison it’s not a violent/murder case or a $40k vehicle…) I have a
security camera on the front gate, and they avoided that by a 100 foot
radius – dragging everything across a fence and down into a ditch on the
other side of the property.The day before another neighbor literally met and passed by
people that had just robbed his farm, on his way back from the store,
less than a mile from his house – he recognized his stuff on the back of
their trailer. This was in the middle of the day. His gate was locked –
but they drove through the ditch and around a field to get to his
house.A local truck repair shop has been in business for 3 generations,
and until a few weeks ago had never been robbed. They are on the main
street of a little town, and live right behind the shop. The front door
of the shop is about 30 feet back from the main street. The thieves
parked in FRONT, and loaded up his equipment.Another big shop was hit on a Saturday morning – main street
going into town – they loaded up everything right out the front door,
with people seeing them, hundreds of cars driving by… They have bolt
cutters, whatever it takes to break in…Another older shop had a heavy wood door with a metal hasp – they
CHOPPED THROUGH THE DOOR WITH AN AXE to cut out the metal hasp. A house
is 100 feet from this shop.We live in Georgia, south of Atlanta, and theft has become so
bad, the state recently required all scrap yards to take pictures of
everything brought in, with a picture of who brought it, a copy of their
drivers license, and their tag number. If it is air
conditioning/heating equipment (bigger than a window unit) you must have
a commercial heating/ac license or a new equipment bill of sale. People
were ripping the copper ground wires off the sides of power poles and
tearing wires off the poles for scrap.A local gas station/restaurant had their AC equipment stolen so
many times, they had to build a chain link locked enclosure around all
the equipment. You can see it from the main street – out in plain view.

Do you have any stories like this that you would like to share?What are you seeing in your neck of the woods?Please feel free to post a comment with your thoughts below…Michael SnyderThe American Dream

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